Chris Hardwick

UPDATED: The weekend highlights range from preseason football to teen favorites, movie classics and a zombie preview.

If you're a "Walking Dead" fan, AMC wants to tantalize you this weekend. Chris Hardwick hosts "Talking Dead Season 6 Preview Special" about the upcoming season at 8 p.m. Sunday. The zombie apocalypse extends to "Fear the Walking Dead," the spinoff series that debuts Aug. 23.

WUCF-Channel 24 repeats "Downton Abbey Rediscovered" at 7 p.m. Sunday. The special celebrates five seasons of the British drama and previews the sixth and final season, which starts Jan. 3. Series creator Julian Fellowes and cast members discuss the...

What to expect from the 90-minute season finale of "The Walking Dead"?
The episode is called "Conquer." Scott Gimple and Seth Hoffman wrote it, and Greg Nicotero directed.
The preview, courtesy of AMC: "Daryl experiences trouble on a run while Rick...

Guest stars and major plots figure in the weekend highlights:
"The Good Wife" brings back Gary Cole as ballistics expert Kurt McVeigh, who is also the husband of Diane (Christine Baranski). The episode, at 9 p.m. Sunday on CBS, also features Michael...

The Oscars will dominate the Sunday night schedule. But there are alternatives, and viewers who haven't seen the nominees may want to look elsewhere.
The show most likely to draw viewers away from the Academy Awards is "The Walking Dead" at 9 p.m. on...

UPDATED: In the history of late-night television, Jon Stewart stands as a true innovator, and his run is coming to an end.
He announced Tuesday night that he will be leaving "The Daily Show" after 17 years. "It is time for someone else," he said.
He...

It's a weekend filled with new episodes, important NFL games and Golden Globes hoopla. Here are programs to keep in mind:
1. The Golden Globes at 8 p.m. Sunday on NBC. You may not want to watch the whole three-hour telecast. But the Amy Poehler-Tina...

"Real Time With Bill Maher" returns this week with comedians Chris Hardwick and Jay Leno as guests.
The panel will be political commentator Paul Begala, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and author Salman Rushdie.
The HBO series starts its 13th...

Daryl cried, and so did millions of "Walking Dead" fans Sunday night.
The midseason finale for the zombie drama ended so shockingly that watching "Talking Dead" was mandatory. Host Chris Hardwick dubbed his show "the 'Walking Dead' Therapy Hour."
The...

College and professional football probably will score the biggest ratings this weekend. Yet there are some big deals in scripted programming. The weekend's highlights:
"The Walking Dead," 9 p.m. Sunday, AMC
The zombie drama offers its midseason...

No other holiday says television like Thanksgiving, which is already three-quarters devoted to sitting on a couch in an insurmountable stupor. Whether it's from the tryptophan, the pie or the beer, from unquestioned custom or, indeed, the psychosomatic...

After this weekend's episode of "The Walking Dead," you'll be without the zombie drama until February.
The latest episode is called "Coda."
AMC offered this preview: "Rules and morals have been tossed aside by new enemies. Rick will try to find a...

Kent Alterman's job is to bring the funny.
Alterman, the 57-year-old president of content development and original production for Comedy Central, helps oversee such hits as "South Park," "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report."
He's...

Seth Meyers was hosting the Emmys, Jimmy Fallon was there, as was Jimmy Kimmel, Chris Hardwick and Stephen Colbert. Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show" team were nominees. Conan O'Brien and Chelsea Handler were both off. But David Letterman once again went...

If you are looking for hard data about the health of the South Florida economy, look no further than the Funky Buddha Brewery in Oakland Park. And, remember, math goes better with beer.
Just one year into its existence, the brewery is gearing up for a $3...

The idea that Chris Hardwick could use his proficient nerd skills to make his way in the world first came to him as a young bowler with a girl propped up against a trash bin behind a bowling alley.
“My most vivid memory was that I was a teenage boy...

The sharp host of the regrettably gone FX series “Totally Biased,” W. Kamau Bell, will be joined by headliners Chelsea Handler, Chris Hardwick, Nick Swardson, Mike Epps and Joe Rogan when the South Beach Comedy Festival returns April 1-6 to Miami...

NEW YORK — Late one evening in June, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer are outlining an episode for their Comedy Central series, "Broad City," when their conversation turns to Superman — specifically, which incarnation of the Man of Steel is the hottest.
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In just two days, Amy Poehler will co-host the 71st annual Golden Globes. She's got an NBC show -- and a web show. A film set for Sundance. And she's executive producer of the upcoming Comedy Central bestie comedy "Broad City," which she was helping to...

DreamWorks Animation is expanding its partnership with YouTube.
The Glendale-based computer animation company is teaming up with YouTube to produce a series of daily shows that will highlight some of the most compelling entertainment on the video-sharing...

Comedy Central has been doing quite well for itself for a while now in late night with the one-two punch of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. But increasingly, it looks as if Chris Hardwick might be part of that regular lineup, based on the straight out of...